SATA vs ATA133 - it all depends. The bottleneck in disk performance does not have to be the connector. It's a new machine, with both ATA133 and SATA. Since it's new, both the ATA133 and SATA controllers will be integrated in the southbridge, they won't be connected over the PCI bus. The difference in speed will be solely drive speed differences, not bus speed differences. If your older HD is not very old (less than a year and a half), chances are that it will hardly be slower than the new drive. Depends on size (80 GB or larger means a faster drive) and seek time. One of my machines has two 80 GB Maxtor DiamondMax9 disks with 8 MB cache, they're two years old by now, and they still perform pretty well (midrange speed when compared to current drives). But those maxtors were about the fastest drives available at the time of purchase. Another couple of 80 GB drives, about the same age, is markedly slower (two WD Caviars). So, how old is the drive, and how fast was it when you bought it, those are the questions. Anyway, if the old drive is only a little slower than the new ATA drive, putting the page file on the old drive will still be advantageous.

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